“Much of your pain is self-chosen.” The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. He teaches us that only through Love we can truly achieve unity within us all. Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883-1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist, also considere..